DARDANELLE - Before the Dardanelle City Council meeting began Monday, two representatives from the senior center thanked the council for all its support and asked people to spread the word that the senior center needed people to come out and eat lunch once or twice a month.

According the site manager for the senior center, with the economy in its current state, funding for senior centers are being cut. Free tickets are available for anyone over 60 for the month of March.

Montie Sims, the Dardanelle Chief of Police, announced that Dardanelle had signed up to participate in an event called National Night Out.

The organization that started National Night Out is The National Association of Town Watch. It's a nonprofit, crime prevention organization, which works in cooperation with thousands of crime watch groups and law enforcement agencies throughout the country.

National Night Out was introduced by the association in 1984.

According to Sims, the main purposes of National Night Out are to generate support for anti-crime, strengthen support within the community and send a message to criminals that neighborhoods are organized against crime.

The police chief said he will invite the fire departments, the ambulance service, the sheriff's department and first responders to come out and meet with the people of the community.

The event will be held Aug. 2 and with the city's permission, the police chief hopes to have the event at one of the city's parks.

According to Sims, there will be food served at no cost to people attending and music will be performed.

"If there's 30 people there, that'll be good," Sims said.

The City Council voted unanimously to adopt a new ordinance, which included the 2009 international building code, the 2006 Arkansas fire prevention code, the 2006 fuel gas code, the 2010 mechanical code and the 2006 plumbing code.

The council determined it was in the best interest of the citizens of Dardanelle for the city to adopt a code of regulations that govern the construction of buildings, the installation of fuel gas as well as mechanical and plumbing systems.

The last item brought forth before the city Council was an update on the water improvement project.

Bill Smith, Water Manager for the city of Dardanelle, confirmed that the construction on the project was ahead of schedule and was to be completed in May.

According to Smith, the original construction date was set for September.

The only unforeseen detail of the project was that more asphalt had been removed from the construction site than originally estimated, and so there will be some extra costs for repaving.